There’s a great article in this month’s Wired magazine about cloud services and specifically about Amazon. They’ve just posted the online version, read it here.
Utility computing is Web 2.0′s version of rocket fuel. “You don’t generate your own electricity,” Bezos says. “Why generate your own computing?” The forces driving online apps — Internet bandwidth and reliability — also mean that, in terms of data per dollar, servers in your closet or colocation facility can’t compete with industrial-scale bits piped in from hundreds, even thousands, of miles away.
The story is an interesting look at the how and why of Amazon’s offerings.
Recently Amazon announced that more bandwidth is being used by AWS then the amazon.com ecommerce site. Here’s a note from their last earnings release:
Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.
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